Out of office feature without Exchange...

[Rocco]

I use outlook without Exchange. The "out of office"-
feature is not in the menu. Is there another way to use
this feature? Maybe a plug-in? Is outlook-express able to
use this feature? Who can help me?

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

I use outlook without Exchange. The "out of office"-
feature is not in the menu. Is there another way to use
this feature? Maybe a plug-in?

No, it's not available unless you connect to Exchange Server. You CAN
emulate it with a rule, but that opens a whole can of worms, such as ALL
spam gets replied to, thus getting you more spam which in turn is replied to
etc etc etc until your mail box (very) rapidly dills up.

Is outlook-express able to
use this feature? Who can help me?

No. For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number. Good luck!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You can use this article - but since you did not specify your version of
Outlook, you may have to tweak some of the information:

OL2002: How to Emulate the Out of Office Assistant
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311107&Product=ol2002

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Rocco <[email protected]> asked:

| I use outlook without Exchange. The "out of office"-
| feature is not in the menu. Is there another way to use
| this feature? Maybe a plug-in? Is outlook-express able to
| use this feature? Who can help me?